I never thought that I’d feel bad for Brian, but… the foreign bride route is for those who can’t compete, or don’t want to, in their own culture. On the other hand, I spent three years with a Russian gal, who I found here, after she was imported by a loser looking for a long term nurse, and she was looking for a way to get her teenage boys away from the Russian Army draft. She was a wonderful gal, beautiful, sexy, charming, and crazy as batshit. Bottom line, we’re all economically rational beings, and people do what they have to do.
The context of the comments is lacking since we don’t know the specific situational facts of every commentor. Like Zorba the Greek, if you haven’t experienced, “wife, house, kids, divorce, the full catastrophe”, you’re probably not in a position to understand how men are treated in this culture.
Like Chris Rock says about OJ, “I ain’t condoning, but I understand.”